This has shifted. I used to listen mostly to news and current-affairs podcasts, and noticed I was absorbing a lot of content that didn’t actually make me any better as a person. Now I gravitate to long-format conversations, where someone tells their own story at length. What I’m after isn’t opinions on the news cycle, it’s depth — a real sense of how a person is put together, what they’ve lived through, and how that shaped the way they approach life now. Less noise, more signal about people.